Quote Originally Posted by Boblawblah View Post
Do you have a source on that quote?
There's an official transcript thread of the entire Q&A section in LLXVIII

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/456921

And looking back to the question that was asked about Venat intentionally letting Emet and others survive sundering. Ok, so I guess I forgot there was that bit of dialogue from Emet after he appeared to save the day where he says “So, here I am Venat. I suppose you needed me to tie it all together…”

Alright so they do address it in game, however it seemed the intention was a gamble as she wouldnt know if they would've survived or not. But I guess this goes with my theory that her reasoning for allowing them to survive so that they can one day help the WoL and she wanted to preserve the original timeline rather than risk changing it. Yoshida even says in a later answer that his interpretation of the timeline mechanics with Elpis is:

"With that said, my personal interpretation is that the past and present were always the part of the same timeline. Although there was still a possibility for the timelines to diverge, the Warrior of Light was unwittingly acting in accordance with Venat’s plans, which unified the past and present. Another interpretation might be that Venat worked really hard behind the scenes to ensure that the timeline wouldn’t go awry.

Seeing how Argos took to us on our first meeting, I’d say that proves that the past and present were already unified."

So basically Venat did what she did to make sure the timeline that she was given account by the WoL didnt deviate and preserve him having to come to the past (to play the shitty games that suck ass) to foretell Venat, Emet and Hythlodeus of the future events being still possible. At least this again is just my interpretation to her actions and to me this makes sense, whether you still find it ethical or not is a debate.

Although I will also add to that debate whether its ethical to alter events to prevent a tragedy only for it to lead to a butterfly effect and possibly allow an even greater one to occur in the future.